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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "claims agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • info_lotterygamespromo2006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "richard Lloyds" <richard_lloyds10010@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:22:37 +0000
Subject: REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14

The National Lottery
3b Olympic Way
Sefton Business Park
Aintree
Liverpool
L30 1RD
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::

NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today,15th of
November,
2006 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held
on
the 31th of October, 2006.
Your ticket number 023-1111-790-458 attached to your email address,
with
serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers 05-11-12-16-17-45-42(bonus
no.42), this lucky number subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
£552,
000, 00 (Five hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds sterling) in cash
credited
to file XYL/26510460037/04. This is from a total cash prize of £5, 520,
000,
00(Five million,
five hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling) shared amongst the
first
ten (10) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus. All
participants of this online promotion programmed were selected randomly
from
numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted
from close to 125,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies listed
online. This promotion takes place quarterly.
Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her via
electronic mail (email).
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in
what ever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this
program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our claims agent;
Official: Peter Haword (Mr.)
Email: info_lotterygamespromo2006@yahoo.co.uk

Send the following information below to him:

1.Full Name...................................................
2.Full Address................................................
3.Marital Status:.............................................
4. Occupation:................................................
5.Email Address:..............................................
6.Age:........................................................
7.Annual Income...............................................
8.Sex:........................................................
9.Nationality:................................................
10.Country of Residence:.......................................
11.Telephone Number:..........................................
12.Fax Number:................................................
13.Ticket Number(above):......................................
14.Reference Number(above):...................................
15.Batch Number(above):.......................................
Yours Truly,
Mr. Richard Lloyds
Co-coordinator (Online Sweepstakes International Program)

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